Up: Fiction writing

McKee lists these units of story:¹¹1 Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting (Methuen, 2014). 

1. Beat
2. Scene
3. Sequence
4. Act
5. Story

Coyne defines the following units of story (from small to big):²²2 Shawn Coyne, The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know (New York, NY: Black Irish Entertainment LLC, 2015). 

1. The beat
2. The scene
3. The sequence
4. The act
5. The subplot
6. The global story

Ingermanson defines them as follows (from big to small):³³3 Randall Ingermanson and Peter Economy, Writing Fiction For Dummies (Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2010). 

1. Top layer: storyline and three-act structure
2. Middle layer: synopsis, scene list, and scene
3. Lowest layer: action, dialogue, and more